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OSW Commentary | | Miłosz Bartosiewicz

Methodical elimination Efforts to dismantle the local government system in Russia

The Putin regime has spent over two decades gradually stripping local governments of their autonomy as part of a consistent process of state centralisation. The effective dismantling of the local government system is now nearing completion…
OSW Commentary | | Iwona Wiśniewska

Putins elite divides the spoils in Russia large-scale nationalisation and re-privatisation of assets

The war against Ukraine and sweeping Western sanctions have triggered another major wave of asset redistribution in Russia – one of the largest since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The actual scale of this process is difficult to…